Friday, August 3, 2018

The Vivisextrator

This post comes from a lot of hard work, and practically none of it is mine. Michael Raston, whose work I linked to in my previous post, took some old writing of mine and vastly improved upon it, rounding out what was intended to be a factory of monster creation that Ibjust wasn’t capable of finishing myself.

So here is the Vivisextrator, a gargantuan bio-factory that vomits up new monstrous creations. Initial description by me, random tables by Michael.

A remnant super-structure of the Biode Hexegemony (a hegemony governed by witch-based ritual power), the Vivisextrator is a behemoth-sized living factory that has recombinant DNA glands that constantly churn and fuse living shapes together; effectively, its mucus makes monsters, and it vomits up random creations.

It's constantly in motion, and its massive cylindrical legs trample everything underneath as it walks. Each leg stalk ends in a stump with a wide mouth at the bottom, which pull all sorts of material from the ground into the beast's conversion gut, which reprocesses materials for use in monster creation.

Thankfully, the creature moves pretty slowly.

Two rows of tall, hollow bone-spires jut out from the behemoth's spine, exhausting wasted gaseous flesh clouds. These clouds can travel great distances and, depending on precipitation, cause meat-bone storms to occur even miles away from the Vivisextrator.

In addition, this exhaust tends to attract Parasitic Rust Vultures who make nests around the bone spires.

Killing the factory should be almost impossible; Not only can we assume it has over 1000 hit points, but it's also pretty well armored and pumps out radiation like a nuclear reactor in meltdown; which is pretty much what the environment inside its skull/brain/control center is.

If someone gained access to the control center, they'd find themselves plunged into a compartment crammed full of thick meat folds and putrescent mucus. If they figure out how to work the controls, they theoretically could control the beast's movement, its feeding, and it's monster creation, but they'd also have to deal with life-ending radiation baths every round.

More importantly, the factory serves the purpose of vomiting an endless assortment of random creatures that are eager to stab players in the face (not all of them), so onto the random charts!

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